Tipease vs ScanText
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tipease
This straightforward tip calculator simplifies calculating gratuities with intuitive sliders and advanced service rating options. Easily adjust tip ranges, subtract taxes, add discounts, and split bills. It offers smart rounding and convenient access via widgets or app icon shortcuts.
- Intuitive slider for service rating
- Advanced service speed and accuracy rating
- Customizable minimum and maximum tip settings
- Subtract tax/service fee or add discounts
- Split checks up to 10 ways
- Smart rounding options
- Notification Center widget for recent calculations
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Tip calculator: completely free and private. Tipease is a no-frills tip calculator. Launch Tipease and one screen does everything. No ads. No in-app purchases. No sign-in. Choose between a basic slider to rate your service experience or an advanced sliding scale rating of your service speed, accuracy, attention and hospitality. Change your minimum and maximum tip in Settings, and Tipease automatically customizes the app to match your personal tipping habits. Subtract the tax and service fee or add the value of a discount or coupon with no trouble. Effortlessly split the check up to 10 ways. Round your total or your tip. An advanced setting provides the option to round to the nearest ten for totals more than 100 and the nearest 100 for totals more than 1,000.
ScanText
Capture text from photos or PDF files and convert it into editable text. Edit, translate, share, or have the text read aloud. This utility works offline for convenient text extraction.
- Photo to text conversion
- PDF to text extraction
- Text editing
- Text translation
- Read text aloud
- Offline functionality
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Take a photo of any articles, and it will be converted to text. Scan any photos or PDF file to extract text. Continue to scan, edit, translate, share or read it out! It is that easy! No Internet connection needed.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tipease at Free against ScanText's $0.99. Tipease also leads on iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). ScanText's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 71 months) and rating (4.7 vs 4.3). On review sentiment, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Tipease is free to download; ScanText costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ScanText holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Tipease ships an update every 71 months, ScanText every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tipease | ScanText |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (14 ratings) | 4.7 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 71 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | — | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shawn Brown | Virtual GS |
Customer experience
Tipease
ScanText
In-app purchases
Tipease
No in-app purchases
ScanText
No in-app purchases
